Relationships between Conceptual Systems and Psychological Types

Abstract

137 college students were given the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and O. J. Harvey's This I Believe test for conceptual systems. For each of the four Myers-Briggs scales, the proportion of each type classified in each of the four main conceptual systems was analyzed. It was hypothesized that sensing and intuitive types would be nonrandomly distributed across conceptual systems, such that the lower conceptual systems would contain higher proportions of sensing types while the higher conceptual systems would contain higher proportions of intuitive types. This was confirmed. An additional unhypothesized trend emerged in which feeling types were overrepresented among System I individuals. The main results were interpreted as supporting the construct validity of the Sensing-Intuition scale of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.